Elena Seiple

Elena Seiple, born on 17 December 1973, is an American bodybuilder and strongwoman. She was born in Harmony Township, New Jersey, and as a child excelled at swimming, basketball, soccer and track. At a private Christian school in Pennsylvania she played on the boys' soccer team because there was no girls' team, and that level of play earned her an athletic scholarship to Liberty University, where she began weightlifting. She started her bodybuilding career at Gibson's Gym in Washington, New Jersey, placed second in the middleweight class at a non-NPC show in 1999, and later finished second at the NPC Nationals four times and third three times. In 2006 she placed ninth at World's Strongest Woman, held in Poland.